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carline
[ kahr-lin, ker- ]
noun
- an old woman.
- a hag; witch.
carline
2/ ˈkɑːlɪn /
noun
- a Eurasian thistle-like plant, Carlina vulgaris, having spiny leaves and flower heads surrounded by raylike whitish bracts: family Asteraceae (composites) Also calledcarline thistle
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Example Sentences
Now the carline bade us get ashore, and we did so, and found the land wondrous fair, little as that solaced us then.
There was a carline at Bergthorsknoll, whose name was Saevuna.
Then the carline rose, and her eyes were strange, as if they saw beyond that upon which she looked.
They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.
She's a fine fusher, Leddy Carline: faith, she may weel be, for I taucht her mysel'.
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